I reached your blog through Fussy. I am very sorry for the loss that you and your family are experiencing. I am on my fourth Thanksgiving/Christmas without my mom. She passed away October 20, 2006 of Stage IV lung cancer.

I cannot express to you how much your words have hit home. This was the first death for me (other than the deaths of three grandparents that I didn’t really know) and boy was it a whopper! I am not writing this comment to give you advice but to empathize. The thing that frustrates me the most about death are the comments that people make, in particular, “It gets better with time.” Because, really, it doesn’t get better with time. This is just now my life without my mom. I am learning to live with it.

I pray for you and your family during the holiday season.